NUECES COUNTY

Equipment Operator

• Drive various trucks and operate equipment for construction, repair, and maintenance of streets, landfills, alleys, county facilities, grounds, and rights-of-way
• Inspect and evaluate machinery, equipment, and systems, including loaders, rollers, maintainers, augers, chip spreaders, sweepers, and compactors
• Check and adjust oil, water, fuel, tires, and hydraulic systems before traveling to job sites
• Perform routine maintenance, construction, drainage, traffic control, and right-of-way mowing work
• Haul materials and equipment to construction or repair sites using dump trucks or other trucks
• Operate heavy equipment such as a maintainer in trainee status
• Perform preventive maintenance and minor equipment repairs, including welding
• Depending on assignment, supervise or direct a patch crew intermittently
• Train employees, plan and assign work, direct work, and resolve problems as needed
• Work before, during, and after natural disasters and emergencies as directed

Equipment Operator – Public Works

General

• Guard, observe, and transport inmates
• Enforce facility rules and policies
• Safeguard the safety and welfare of inmates and staff
• Complete field training and supervised corrections officer duties
• Remain on duty before, during, and after natural disasters and emergencies as directed
• Book, classify, observe, transfer, transport, and release inmates
• Conduct inspections, shakedowns, inmate searches, and key checks
• Conduct inmate head counts
• Complete, check, and process official papers and documents
• Intervene in and resolve fights, fires, medical emergencies, and other crises
• Restrain combative inmates
• Serve or supervise serving meals
• Supervise inmates performing cleaning duties
• Provide informal counseling
• Conduct safety and fire-exit inspections
• Assist with inmate telephone calls, mail, laundry, visits, and commissary
• Directly supervise inmate activities in housing
• Address complaints and resolve problems

Corrections Officer – Jail

• Guard, observe, and transport inmates
• Enforce facility rules and policies
• Safeguard the safety and welfare of inmates and staff
• Complete required academy and field training under close supervision
• Remain on duty before, during, and after natural disasters and emergencies as directed
• Attend the Training Academy to become a Certified Jailer
• Book, classify, observe, transfer, transport, and release inmates
• Conduct inspections, shakedowns, inmate searches, key checks, head counts, and fire-exit inspections
• Complete, check, and process official papers and documents
• Intervene in and resolve fights, fires, medical emergencies, and other crises
• Restrain combative inmates
• Serve or supervise inmate meals
• Supervise inmates during cleaning duties
• Provide informal counseling to inmates
• Assist with inmate telephone calls, mail, laundry, visits, and commissary
• Directly supervise activities of 1 to 58 inmates at a time
• Address complaints and resolve problems

Equipment Operator – Public Works

Corrections Officer – Jail

Cadet Corrections Officer